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Died. Myron C. Wick, 38, Ohio broker, plaintiff in the suit to enjoin the merger between Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of pneumonia, a week after he had been taken ill in court, at Youngstown...
Ever since 1922 when Kaiser Karl died of pneumonia on the island of Madeira, indomitable Zita has worked, slaved, plotted to put her eldest, Otto, on the throne of Hungary. Everyone at all favorable to the Habsburg cause-from able, eagle-beaked Ignaz Seipel, twotime Chancellor of Austria, to the last lackadaisical Archduke-she has put to work. When Archduke Albrecht of Hungary formally renounced his aspirations to the throne two months ago (TIME, June 9), when Zita's brother, Prince Sixtus de Bourbon- Parme was given a secret and important interview with one of the most important opponents...
Died. Siegfried Wagner, 61, orchestra conductor, composer of unsuccessful operas, son of the late great Composer Richard Wagner, director of the memorial festivals at Bayreuth; of pneumonia; at Bayreuth...
...insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip in a day coach. At Staunton he collapsed, died of pneumonia which his starved body could not resist. His death made much newspaper copy. Reporters interviewed hoboes passing through their communities. Hobo "kings" bragged that they would carry on his work, that hoboes were hopping on freight trains for his funeral in Washington, that he was a good "stiff" (man). Washington police prepared...
...Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended critics outdid one another...